The Mayans can't be right that the world is ending because we have a new Live{USB,DVD} on the way and if they are right then we can at least see all the latest software Gentoo Linux has to offer before we go out with a bang.

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Now I need to find a blank media to burn this to...
hmm. Wish my uplink was faster, seeding for a bit while I can stand it..._________________Intel Core i7 2700K@ 4.1GHz/HD3000 graphics/8GB DDR3/180GB SSDWhat am I supposed watching?

The files I downloaded from the torrent did end up matching the official digests on gentoo.org. However I wasn't able to verify the gpg signature (couldn't find where to get the public key of the signer)... Ah well close enough, as long as it matches one thing and gentoo.org didn't get hacked..._________________Intel Core i7 2700K@ 4.1GHz/HD3000 graphics/8GB DDR3/180GB SSDWhat am I supposed watching?

Very nice, but this thing is a memory hog. Tried it out in virtualbox and found out that it needs 1gig of memory to finish booting, and if you use some of the bigger apps on it then it needs 1.5gigs of memory.

Very nice, but this thing is a memory hog. Tried it out in virtualbox and found out that it needs 1gig of memory to finish booting, and if you use some of the bigger apps on it then it needs 1.5gigs of memory.

I confirm this. I was not able to start x86 version on VirtualBox guest with 512MB RAM. System starts ok, but Xorg crashes.

1) Using Seamonkey within Gnome, I visited the KUAF Radio "ways to listen" and found mplayer printed half the stdout in Russian or Cyrllic chars, the other half in preferred English chars.

2) Nice to see a different Window Manager KDE as the default, but my preferences are DWM, XFCE, and then Awesome window manager. The Gentoo configuration of Gnome-3 seems a little cleaner or navigable then Fedora's LiveDVD Gnaome-3 version. Sorry, Cinnamon and other Gnome spin-off's, although well intentioned forks, don't seem to be configuring their stuff for ease of use and making usability more complicated then it's extremely complicated successor, Gnome-3. Overall, for a basic functioning Window Manager, XFCE still rules -- and seems usable for Windows 95 folks too. XFCE just doesn't have all the auto-magical stuff KDE has. XFCE also breaks the system tools from the system preferences for easier distinguishing between the two, including the XFCE start menu is just extremely more well usable then any other Window Manager's start menu. As to why all of them Window Managers got rid of of the default "Shaded Windows", did a MS Developer hijack all the Window Manager source code?

3) No sample Music provide! In order to test or experience sound, users will likely need to "locate" system sound files. Although, a /home/gentoo/Music/ was already provided. Might I suggest providing at least three small Symphony vorbis/mp3 files?

4) Some Really Really Great Artwork! When booting, it was was also very easy to tap F2 as well as other streamlining tasks. Only issue, virtual tty1 was cleared after booting, destroying any possible error boot messages on terminal. Logging in was easy and changing the root password was easy, but a beginner may have issues if there's no default password.

5) Good range of popular software, boosting lots of features. Just noticed gvim and emacs using a basic old style X? widgets, instead of gtk-1/gtk-2/gtk-3._________________Roger
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